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2025 In Memoriam: Icons We Lost as Reiner Homicides and Kirk Shooting Lead to Charges

Year-end lists blend tributes with legal updates, highlighting a few violent deaths under active prosecution.

Overview

  • Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were found fatally stabbed on Dec. 14 in Brentwood, with son Nick Reiner charged with two counts of first-degree murder and the medical examiner ruling homicide by multiple sharp-force injuries.
  • Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed on Sept. 10 during a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University, and Tyler James Robinson was arrested and charged in the case.
  • Ozzy Osbourne, the Black Sabbath co-founder, died on July 22 at age 76 after a long battle with Parkinson's disease.
  • Robert Redford, the Oscar-winning actor-director and Sundance founder, died in his sleep at his Utah home on Sept. 16 at age 89.
  • Jane Goodall, the pioneering primatologist and conservationist, died in her sleep of natural causes on Oct. 1 at age 91.